# Open-Less/openless

Hold a key, speak, release — AI-polished text appears at your cursor in any app. Open-source voice input for macOS & Windows. (按住快捷键说话，松开即得润色后的文字)

Repository: https://github.com/Open-Less/openless
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/openless
Homepage: https://github.com/appergb/openless
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai-prompt, asr, dictation, macos, open-source, speech-to-text, voice-input, prompt-engineering, typeless, typeless-alternative, wispr-flow-alternative, llm, rust, tauri, windows, linux
Last push: 2026-08-26T08:15:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 98, longevity 9
- inputs: {"age_days": 128, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 12, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 46}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3321, forks 297 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:56.250822+00:00)

## What it is
OpenLess is an open-source cross-platform voice input application that lets users hold a hotkey, speak, and have AI-polished text inserted at the cursor in any app. Built with Rust and Tauri 2, it serves as an open alternative to commercial dictation tools like Typeless and Wispr Flow.

## Use cases
- dictate text into any app with a hotkey
- replace Wispr Flow with an open-source voice input tool
- speak instead of typing in ChatGPT or Notion
- AI-polish dictated text before insertion
- voice-to-text dictation on macOS and Windows

## When to choose
- you want an open-source alternative to Typeless or Wispr Flow
- you need system-wide voice dictation across arbitrary apps
- you want dictated text cleaned up by an LLM in your writing style

## When to avoid
- you need mobile or web dictation
- you require fully offline transcription with no LLM dependency
- you need a library or SDK to embed speech recognition in your own software

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: speech-recognition, llm-inference, prompt-engineering, desktop-framework
- domain: speech-processing, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, rust
- tags: voice-input, dictation, speech-to-text, typeless-alternative, wispr-flow-alternative, hotkey, ai-polished-text, natural-language-processing, macos, linux, tauri

## Member repositories
- Open-Less/openless (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.250822+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:41:50.113056+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Open-Less/openless (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.250822+00:00, sha 0bef04e11f26)
  - homepage: https://github.com/appergb/openless (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:50.026785+00:00, sha 77305a14417e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.